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Displaying 7686 - 7690 of 15550Local Courts (Amendment) Act, 1965 (No. 29 of 1965).
This Act amends the Local Courts Act, 1963 in various provisions with respect to monetary entities and time periods. It also amends the principal Act in section 29 (Right of Appeal to District Appeal Court) and section 47 (false records) and adds a new section 48A, which provides that the powers vested in a President under this Act or any Rules made thereunder shall be exercised by a Vice-President.
Amends: Local Courts Act, 1963 (No. 20 of 1963). (1963-06-21)
Land (Duties and Taxes) (Amendment of Schedule) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 172 of 2013).
These Regulations amend the Land (Duties and Taxes) Act in the Eighth Schedule which lists deeds of transfer that are exempted pursuant to section 45A(3)) from payment of duty or tax under Part II, Part III and Part VIA of the Act for transfer of an immovable property.
Amends: Land (Duties and Taxes) Act 1984. (2007-08-22)
Lands and Buildings Taxes Act (Cap. 76:04).
This Act imposes a tax on all lands and buildings not being within the Cities of Port-of-Spain and San Fernando, or the Boroughs of Arima and Point Fortin. It also requires owners or occupiers of land or buildings to make returns and provides with respect to the assessment of the value of land or buildings, collection of taxes and appeal against assessment. It also provides for forfeiture of land as an enforcement measure. Any land forfeited under this Act may be dealt with as vacant or waste State lands.
Sugar Industry Efficiency (Amendment) Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013).
This Act amends the Sugar Industry Efficiency Act 2001 in various sections so as to, among other things, to: (a) extend incentives presently applicable; (b) extend the definition of “métayer” to include a person who, at the commencement of this Act, has been cultivating cane on land leased from the planter for a consecutive period of three crop cycles; (c) make better provision to prevent speculation on agricultural land by including agricultural morcellements in the definition of “agricultural land” and reviewing the minimum plot size for subdivision of land for agricultural purposes; (d)
Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, 2013 (No. 9 of 2013).
This Act amends the Land Acquisition Act in sections 14 and 18 in relation to the power of an authorised officer to make interim payment of compensation to an interested person pending an award of the Board of Assessment and deduction of the amount of interim payment from the award by the Board.
Amends: Land Acquisition Act (Act RL 3/341 of 18 December 1973). (1990)